Horace Williams
I was the Airport Kid at Horace Williams in the 70's. The place was much better before the 3 monsterous (5000+ ft) sod runways were castrated with a single miniscule 3500 ft paved strip around 1971. This airport has been under duress both from the Lake Forest area off the end of 9 (too much money and too little sense) and also confusingly the University. I have never understood why the University did not wholeheartedly support the place. They have gradually stolen property for various building projects on the old inactive runways. In regards to waste, this is an old military training strip. The hospital was second fiddle. If there is waste now, it must be in the encroachment area. The original airport is on regular old NC red clay.
I stop there a couple of times a year to see my mom. As previously stated, fuel and tiedown are available and the staff is nice. You just don't see a bustle of energetic aviation there.
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Bill Pendergrass
ME/AE '82
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